Tomatoes have traditionally been canned in a boiling water bath. To ensure the safety of whole, crushed or juiced tomatoes; USDA recommends adding acid, whether they will be processed in a boiling water bath or pressure canner.

The 2012 LaRue County Fair is July 30-Aug. 4 and LaRue County residents are encouraged to enter garden and crop exhibits. Agriculture remains a strong part of our 105th LaRue County Community Fair.

Specific details for all the exhibits and events can be reviewed in the 2012 LaRue County Fair and Livestock Expo supplement to the July 11 issue of The LaRue County Herald News. It can help you meet the rules and regulations for these and other County Fair events.

Day Camp
A 4-H Day Camp will be held 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. July 25 at the LaRue County Extension Office. Participants will make several projects that can be entered in the LaRue County Fair, including a basket and a birdhouse. The cost is $5 and includes lunch. Participants will also make brownies which they can make again at home to enter in the fair on July 30. This day camp is open to youth ages 9 to 12. Call the Extension Office at 358-3401 to sign your child up to participate.

To Bob Ernst, the basis of everything in life is love and how people use that love to help others. With that in mind, he proposed one question: “How can we show love with a farm, a church and people who may be hungry?”

Evelyn Gibbons, who attends Silver Angels Sunrise Manor Adult Day Care, prepares ceramics for entry in the LaRue County Fair. Gibbons and her family have been involved in the county fair for many years, raising and showing saddlebred horses.

Sometimes, when picking zucchini, any attentive yet error-proned gardener may overlook one because the huge leaves can hide a bloom rendering it invisible ... for weeks. That hidden bloom forms a zucchini and before you know it, you have a Big Bertha.

Big Bertha and siblings ... the one zucchini you miss picking until it's way too late.